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Karen Miotto, M.D.

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Karen Miotto, M.D.

Avoiding Addiction While Managing Pain
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dr. Karen Miotto is an Associate Clinical Professor in the department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is currently the Medical Director of the VA Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Center's Substance Abuse Program. She is frequently an invited speaker at national addiction meetings.  In addition, she has published many professional papers and book chapters on substance abuse and pain management for addictive diseases. Her current research is on treatments for Club Drug Addiction. She is the recipient of a career development award from the National Institute on Drug Addiction to study treatment for GHB withdrawal.

Objectives:

• To learn about opioid-induced hyperalgesia, a well as tolerance and withdrawal, as they affect pain and its treatment
• To become familiar with pain managment approaches in patients with addiction disorders and in particular pain management for patients on opioid maintenance therapy, including menthadone and buprenorphine maintenance.